Wullie

Get him on with Souness.

Wolsburg vs Man Utd Bet365 offer on Tuesday, opportunity to try and win back what Newcastle have just cost me.

7, not counting the first today.

http://i.imgur.com/dtCJTVL.png Onside

Absolutely mental given the last few performances.

Paully :lol:

I don't disagree tbh, but you've changed your tune since the summer (unless I've got a different poster). Wasn't it you who said you don't buy the 'we couldn't attract them' stuff? The club had an opportunity when Pardew buggered off to Palace to show that, actually, their ambitions went beyond deliberate mediocrity. Everything that's happened since then, particularly pursuing a proven failure for the manager's job, has proved beyond doubt that there are no ambitions beyond that. It's a policy that absolutely will not change, and yeah, I've completely given up on hoping for anything. The malaise at the club is deep rooted and everyone in football knows it. Anyone who isn't damaged (i.e. completely ruined) goods would have to be mind-bogglingly stupid to even talk to us, which is just as well really as that's exactly the people we go for.

There isn't anyone to 'hope' for. Anyone who takes the job will take it because they have no choice, because their reputation is so damaged that nobody else will touch them, like the mug we've got now and the one before him. The club is fucked until Ashley departs. No point dancing around that.

Gerraway man. Eh? In what way would working for Mike Ashley suit David Moyes perfectly? He'd have to have completely lost his marbles to even consider it.

He pretty much used to say it at the start of every season, how brilliant his squad was, then when the transfer window closed, he'd say he was aiming for 48 points because actually we've got no money and all his mates on the telly would tell us how his hands were tied. Before 2012/13: http://www.skysports.com/football/news/11678/8056672/newcastle-boss-alan-pardew-targeting-champions-league-after-keeping-his-stars Midway through 2013/14: http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/newcastle-boss-alan-pardew-targets-3013443 Before 2014/15: http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/alan-pardew-only-champions-league-7509820

It's probably cash but yeah it'll be £5 max. Nope I was wrong, it's a free bet.

It's probably cash but yeah it'll be £5 max.

Gerraway man.

"I don't want to fight my car" Wish he would, preferably when it's travelling at high speed.

Sounds similar to the reports we got back from Rangers about some of the bunch we sent up last season.

They know where the/a ground is. If you want to see a concert, buy a ticket. If you want to see a film, buy a ticket. Why should football be any different? Not everything needs beaming into living rooms for the benefit of the lazy and the spoilt. You should be able to follow your team however you want it. Loads of people can't make it to the game be it for financial or other reasons, give them the option of watching it at home, surely? Any fan knows that it's better to watch the game live than on TV, but it's simply not an option for everyone, especially for away games. I wouldn't go and watch another football game that I have no interest in just because my team isn't televised. Using your concert example, if I couldn't make it to a concert, say it was sold out, I wouldn't go and buy a ticket for some other band that I don't like just because I wanted to go to a concert. There's far more at stake than an individual not being able to watch next week's match. Big deal. It's difficult enough for lower league clubs to tempt kids away from just getting a Man City shirt without making it vastly moreso for them. TV greed has done enough damage to the structure of football right across Europe, I'm shocked that so many people want to see the Premier League get richer at the expense of the English pyramid. The depth of it is by far and away the best thing about football in this country.

They know where the/a ground is. If you want to see a concert, buy a ticket. If you want to see a film, buy a ticket. Why should football be any different? Not everything needs beaming into living rooms for the benefit of the lazy and the spoilt.

I don't think it would change massively. People who can afford to will always want to go and watch their team live in person. For every fan that says fuck it I'll just watch my team on telly I'm sure there would be another fan willing to take his or her seat at the stadium. Its how its all managed to be honest. To encourage attendances remain high at lower league clubs I'd like to see more of the TV revenue shared out evenly on the provision that lower league clubs slash their ticket prices. £40 odd quid to watch Leeds in the Championship? I obviously disagree but on the flipside, who would the benefit be to? Premier League clubs? TV companies? People who aren't prepared to pay for football where it is intended to be paid for, i.e. in the ground? Not sure I'm particularly interested in seeing any of those benefit at the expense of the football pyramid. One child opting to watch Man Utd on TV instead of Gateshead is one too many.

It's not a "ban" though is it, there's more football on TV now than at any time in history. It's a rule which is there to help maintain the proud structure of English football. It's like complaining that you can't see the new Star Wars movie on TV from the day of release - "I should be able to watch what I want, when I want, so why is there this ridiculous ban on new movies being televised immediately?" - well because without such a rule, the whole cinema industry collapses. The money isn't what's important to lower/non league clubs, it's people turning up on a Saturday afternoon. Indeed, especially kids. You wouldn't immediately see a massive change in attendances if the rule was reversed tomorrow but over time as kids grow up used to top flight football freely available instead of watching their local side, the effect would be enormous.

Is this a serious question? England has a football structure far deeper than any in world football and it should be kept that way as much as possible. If "moving with the times" means getting more money into the hands of the Premier League clubs and less to the hundreds of others down the pyramid, then I'll stick to being a dinosaur.

People will still go to games though, the league is strong enough without needing protection. It's not the Premier League that the rule is there to protect.

I can't bloody get a win from anywhere at the minute like.

Who are you talking to?

Lawrie Sanchez must be getting sick like, he's definitely had the NUFC job about five times now.